Re: why was the VAR 'optind' never changed in initdb?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Clover White <mywhiteclover(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: why was the VAR 'optind' never changed in initdb?
Date: 2012-04-09 18:27:38
Message-ID: 4F832A1A.1020802@dunslane.net
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On 04/09/2012 01:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> i.e. we'd forbid:
>> initdb -D foo bar
>> which the OP's error more or less devolves to.
> Makes sense. Don't we have a similar issue with psql, pg_dump, etc?

From a quick survey:

psql won't override a dbname or username set explicitly with an option
argument.

pg_dump doesn't have an option argument to set the dbname.

pg_restore doesn't have an option argument to set the input file name.

vacuumdb, clusterdb, reindexdb, createlang and droplang all need
remediation. createuser and dropuser look ok.

pg_ctl seems a mess :-( I'll need to look at it closer.

cheers

andrew

> regards, tom lane
>

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